"North Carolina is an area that the border patrol has been looking at—actually that whole region—with the NASCAR sponsorship."

Something Wicked this way comes.

Protesters demanded a public meeting with Dillard Drive Middle School Principal Teresa Abron, who held separate meetings for blacks and Hispanics after a fight.

The new election will take place no earlier than Feb. 12— 55 days from the Dec. 19 decision.

This week, Triangle supporters who commit to raising at least $10,000 for Obama will meet with Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe at a lunch organized by Tim Toben, Edwards' former environmental adviser and a major Edwards fundraiser.

Despite local business leaders' efforts at linking the region, other forces are pulling the area into two distinct, increasingly estranged regions.

While my perspective as a consumer and observer leads me to conclude that there are two discrete communities, I was surprised to learn that theater artists, in particular, are willing to think of the Triangle as a single, large market.

...a new statewide reuse program is encouraging schools and community groups to collect those items for fundraising.

Edwards spelled out a set of policies on health care, energy, trade and the economy that his rivals, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, later adopted. But most voters didn't hear much about Edwards, beyond the fact that his campaign had paid $400 for his haircut.

Will Time Warner Cable customers in the Triangle be able to watch Major League Baseball this spring?